Hi, I’m building a homelab watercooled unix server. I don’t want to buy expensive overpriced pre-mixes from ekwb or aquatuning. What cooling solution do datacenters use for water cooling?
What is the chemical solution? Does anyone know?
Hi, I’m building a homelab watercooled unix server. I don’t want to buy expensive overpriced pre-mixes from ekwb or aquatuning. What cooling solution do datacenters use for water cooling?
What is the chemical solution? Does anyone know?
There’s basically no reason ever to do water cooling on a home system unless you’re trying to do overclocking.
Air is cheaper, more reliable, and typically quieter because you don’t need pumps.
A legit exception might occur with a strict energy-optimization objective, where the point would be transporting heat outside of an HVAC envelope as efficiently as possible. The cost of the additional thermal load is often ignored by hobbyists in their energy calculations but it can be significant. In the context of fixed-capacity solar, for example, it might be cheaper to pipe waste heat from a telco closet to a space that isn’t climate controlled, like a garage, than it would be to expand the solar installation for increased HVAC draw.
Air also does not make things wet when it leaks.
Is rain a leak?
The clouds are leaking.
Ah shit.
And air doesn’t leak all over your electronics. Well it does but it doesn’t short anything out.